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“How Do You ... Use Film Viewing To Enhance Language Comprehension?", Alfredo Herrero De Haro

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In this article I will be looking at ways of using films to enhance students’ language comprehension, following on from the How do you…? section in the previous issue of Vida Hispánica, -henceforth Herrero de Haro (2013)-.

You Had To Be There: Anachronism And The Limits Of Laughing At The Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Comic medievalism is one of the most widespread but least examined forms of postmedieval response. Its combination of comic modality, modern sensibility and historical vision captures what postmedieval audiences have deemed amusing about medieval society. But some instances have been less successful. ‘You had to be there,’ the phrase marking the failure of a comic attempt, and the relationship of that failure to the loss of immediacy, is realized in comic medievalism through the temporal fragility of laughter, historical mediation and temporal paradox. This essay explores some limitpoints to the comic reception of the Middle Ages, focusing especially on its …

Radio You Can Read? What To Make Of Rn’S New Magazine, Siobhan A. Mchugh

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This month, ABC Radio National (RN) launched a pilot digital magazine, White Paper, which presents “the distilled wisdom of RN” in a monthly interactive offering delivered free to your tablet.

Newspapers have already adopted “convergent journalism”, the combination of different forms of journalism, with mixed results. So what can we read into RN’s latest project?

Two of the more successful iterations of convergent media put an audio expert in charge of multimedia content online: former This American Life producer Amy O’Leary at the New York Times and former BBC Radio producer Francesca Panetta at The Guardian. Panetta helped create Firestorm, …

Careful Who You Chat With: It Could Turn You Into A Criminal, Luke Mcnamara

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Next time you strike up a conversation at your local coffee shop, have a chat in the pub after work, or have a natter with fellow dog lovers as you follow your pooch around the park, you may want to get in early with a few key questions. Like, “Do you have a criminal record?” If yes, I suggest you ask a delicate follow-up: “How serious was your crime?”

"If You Can Hold On...": Counter-Apocalyptic Play In Richard Kelly’S Southland Tales, Marcus O'Donnell

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (2006) presents a dystopic, post-apocalyptic, near-future through an aesthetic, which fuses contemporary postmodern screens with the phantasmagorical of traditional apocalyptic visions. This article argues that Southland Tales is an example of what feminist theologian Catherine Keller calls the “counter-apocalyptic” (Keller 1996:19-20). Through strategies of ironic parody Kelly both describes and questions the apocalyptic and its easy polarities. In situating the film as counter-apocalyptic the paper argues that the film both resists the apocalyptic impulse however it is also located within it. In this sense it produces a unique take on the genre of the post-apocalyptic film …